Striving for Purity in a World Where Sex Sells
// Week 5 of “Waiting + Dating: a 7 Week Guide to Godly Relationships // {Links to Week 1, Week 2 + Week 3, + Week 4.} I sound like such a valley girl in this...
Category: singleness
The Great Fairy Tale Hoax
// on “choosing love” over “falling in love” // {Note: this is Week 3 of a series. You may read Week 1 here, Week 2 here + Week 3 here, then continue on below!} Honest...
How to Wait for “The One” With Grace
{Note: this is Week 3 of a series. You may read Week 1 here and Week 2 here, then continue on below!} grace: ɡrās/ noun 1. simple elegance or refinement of movement. I’m going to be honest with...
Cut Open to be Healed: On Becoming “The One”
{Note: This is Week 2 of a series. If you have not read Week 1 you may do so here: Waiting + Dating: a 7 Week Guide to Godly Relationships!} To clarify: The first...
Waiting + Dating: a 7 Week Guide to Godly Relationships
I know what you’re thinking: “Easy for you to write about waiting + dating; you’re married!” And well, while that may be true, my journey of getting here was anything but easy. Or quick....
behind the scenes
// how God is working behind the scenes writing our love story + in our lives // I found this faded concert ticket on a recent trip back home to Texas. On my bulletin...
more than a feeling
5.30.2015 We walk hand in hand down the sidewalk in my hometown. We’ve been dating a couple of months. He turns toward me when we get to the corner, pulls me close and dances...
more than just a trip
Tomorrow we leave for Europe. I can hardly believe it. For almost as long as I have dreamt of getting married, I have dreamt of traveling to Europe — specifically Italy as I’ve learned...
valentine’s day.
Today is Valentine’s Day. My Instagram feed is flooded with photos and videos of couples and gifts and flowers and all sorts of expressions of love. I’m sure yours is, too. And that’s great....
the work of marriage
“Study the lines in your face like roads on a map, leading me home. I’m gonna love you ‘til the stars and their ghosts fade to black, until time rots our bones, wrinkles our...
